Saturday, February 18, 2017

New Comp-Lake Charles

Hey everyone! Here's my email this week, hope y'all enjoy it!So, last weeek was transfers and I had to say good bye to Elder Crimafter only six wonderful weeks with him, we had a lot of fun togetherand worked hard to see success, I was happy to serve with him and I'lldefinitely miss him!

But, on the bright side, I got a brand new shiny comp named ElderKent! I felt kinda bad though, because on Sunday I got a pretty badhead cold at Stake conference and I wasn't able to shake it untilTuesday night, so his first impression of me was pretty sad, I couldhardly think straight! He's from Logan Utah, but has also lived for along while in Iowa. He's a great guy, I'm excited to be serving withhim, he's a hard worker and already loves it out here in Louisiana(but who wouldn't? This is the best place ever!)

In other news, the Lake Charles Sister's up and moved out last week,so we're now the only missionaries in the ward! Which means we get totake over all the sister's old investigators and their old area, so wenow have a whole lot more country to go and see! I'm excited for that,and for all the new wonderful people we get to work with.

Ok, so, one strange thing that happened this week and one cool thing:On Thursday we were walking around a ghetto apartment complex lookingfor new investigators, like you do, and right when we got out of ourcar, we looked over and saw this big black guy driving around on theside walk in one of those little pink electric Barbie cars, like areal straight up OG. We couldn't believe what we were seeing for alittle bit, until we took a closer look and saw a little girl sittingin the "passenger seat", still, it was a pretty strange sight to see!

Another cool thing that happened, on Tuesday we were walking around where we found Joyce, again, looking for more newinvestigators. We had found about four people who seemed prettyinterested before we got to the end of the street, and I couldn't seeanybody else outside walking around, and I had been feeling prettysick so I turned around to go back to the car when he asked me if Iwanted to keep going on to the next street. I thought, sure, why not?So we kept going and right when we were turning the corner on thestreet, this young black lady comes walking right up to us and asks us"whatchyall doing?" So we tell her that we're missionaries, and shegot all excited and asked if we had any bibles she could have, and ofcourse we did! We gave her a bible and a Book of Mormon and told her alittle about it. While we were talking to her I got pretty dizzy (wewere also fasting that day along with the rest of the zone to seemiracles happen this transfer) so while we were teaching I was justlike, can we sit down on the curb? So we taught her the restorationwhile sitting on the curb next to a ghetto playground in the projects,pretty neat experience! Her names Porsha, she's 20, is married and hastwo little chiruns and wants to learn more! I'm so glad my comp waslistening to the Spirit while I was feeling so crummy.

Well, I sure do love y'all, but I love the Lord even more! I'm outhere working hard to follow His will, I hope y'all are doing the samewherever you may be! This weeks ponderize scripture is Alma 42:30-31,read it, live it, love it!Love,Elder MurdockTrue to the Faith